Li Ganjie, China’s minister of environmental protection
More than a year after China’s announced National Sword, the country’s import restrictions and their impacts continue to draw readers’ interest.
Last month, readers were overwhelmingly drawn to coverage of China and its impacts, but they were also curious to learn more about TerraCycle.
A contamination-reduction campaign draws an angry response from some residents, and New York City approves a ban on polystyrene foam food-service items (again).
Features from the December 2017 print edition:
- Community Spotlight: Emerald City evolves diversion with analytical assistance
- Data Corner: Chronology of the Great China Ban
- Intelligent additions
- Latin American evolution
- MRF of the Month: Boulder County Recycling Center
- Real impacts from artificial intelligence
- What’s left to recover?
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The value of recovered packaging is flat to up as the new year begins.
Last month, Resource Recycling readers were drawn to news about adding packaging types to programs, as well as to articles about market development and the falling UBC recovery rate.
Connecticut brings material consistency to its residential program rules. That news is part of our roundup of recent materials recovery updates from U.S. states (and one Canadian province).